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Crawford, Walt – Library Hi Tech, 1991
Review of upgrades to IBM and Macintosh software includes personal experiences with DOS 5.0, PC Tools Version 7, and Microsoft Word 5.5. Reasons for and problems with upgrades are then discussed, including alternatives to upgrading and problems with skipping upgrades. Guidelines for deciding whether to upgrade and notes from the literature for…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer Software Selection, Decision Making, Guidelines
Raitt, David I. – 1989
Written from the viewpoint of an observer of the computer industry and a CD-ROM user, this report looks at CD-ROM evaluation guidelines; notes the performance of publishers; and comments on successful product design. It is contended that some software publishers are jumping on the CD-ROM bandwagon, and are guilty of: (1) putting "any old stuff"…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Database Producers
Squires, David; McDougall, Anne – 1994
A new paradigm is proposed for thinking about educational software, based on a the mutual interaction of the perspectives of those concerned in the use of educational software: the student, the teacher, and the software designer. This rejects the usual checklist approach and leads instead to an approach to software selection closely associated…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation